'Tempo' set to hit streets again today<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): With a cover story on the mass rapes during
\nMay's rioting, newsweekly magazine Tempo will be back on
\nnewsstands on Tuesday, four years after Soeharto's government
\nrevoked its license.<\/p>\n
Chief editor Goenawan Mohamad said the magazine would remain
\ncritical of the government but did not bear any feelings of
\nvengeance about the past.<\/p>\n
\"The journalism we develop is based on the spirit not to
\nmonopolize the truth. We realize that the truth also exists in
\nother places which we possibly do not like,\" Goenawan said during
\nthe relaunching of the magazine at the Ceramics Museum in West
\nJakarta on Sunday.<\/p>\n
With an initial working capital of about Rp 5 billion
\n(US$545,000), the newsweekly is published by PT Arsa Raya
\nPerdana. It is run by experienced journalists, most of whom who
\nhad worked for the magazine before its closure.<\/p>\n
Goenawan said he would retain his position for one year at the
\nmost, after which he would be replaced by Bambang Harymurti,
\nformer executive editor of Media Indonesia daily.<\/p>\n
Former deputy editor Fikri Jufri is now general manager, and
\nZulkifly Lubis replaced Eric Samola as business manager.<\/p>\n
Tempo lost its license not long after it reported the purchase
\nof 30 secondhand warships from Germany in its June 1994 edition.
\nThe purchasing was led by then state minister of research and
\ntechnology B.J. Habibie.<\/p>\n
Then minister of finance Mar'ie Muhammad had slashed Habibie's
\nfunding request from $1.1 billion to $482 million, saying
\nHabibie's figure was too high.<\/p>\n
Then minister of information Harmoko, now speaker of the House
\nof Representatives, refused to issue a new license to the
\nmagazine.<\/p>\n
Only five months after the banning, the Ministry of
\nInformation granted a new license to PT Era Media Indonesia to
\npublish the weekly Gatra. Mohamad \"Bob\" Hasan, one of former
\npresident Soeharto's closest cronies, controls 35.75 percent of
\nthe company's shares.<\/p>\n
Along with Tempo, the government also simultaneously banned
\nweekly magazine Editor and DeTIK tabloid.<\/p>\n
The former subsequently became Tiras, which has disappeared
\nfrom the market during the last few months. DeTIK recently
\nreappeared under the title DeTAK. (25\/prb)<\/p>",
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